| Data: | Armed forces personnel, total | ||||||||
| Year: | 1960 - 2013 | ||||||||
| Country: | Indonesia | ||||||||
| Source: | World Bank (the information in this section is direct quotation from World Bank development data) | ||||||||
| Series Code: | MS.MIL.TOTL.P1 | ||||||||
| Topic: | Public Sector: Defense & arms trade | ||||||||
| Short Definition: | 0 | ||||||||
| Long Definition: | Armed forces personnel are active duty military personnel, including paramilitary forces if the training, organization, equipment, and control suggest they may be used to support or replace regular military forces. | ||||||||
| Unit of Measurement: | 0 | ||||||||
| Periodicity: | Annual | ||||||||
| Base Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Reference Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Aggregation method: | Sum | ||||||||
| Limitations and exceptions: | Data excludes personnel not on active duty, therefore it underestimates the share of the labor force working for the defense establishment. Governments rarely report the size of their armed forces, so such data typically come from intelligence sources. Unless otherwise indicated, the reserves includes all reservists committed to rejoining the armed forces in an emergency, except when national reserve service obligations following conscription last almost a lifetime. | ||||||||
| Notes from original source: | 0 | ||||||||
| General Comments: | Data for some countries are based on partial or uncertain data or rough estimates. | ||||||||
| Original Source: | International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance. | ||||||||
| Statistical concept and methodology: | Military
data on manpower represent quantitative assessment of the personnel strengths
of the world's armed forces. The numbers are based on the most accurate data
available to, or, on the best estimate that can be made by the International
Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) at the time of its annual publication.
The IISS collects the data from national governments. Armed forces personnel comprise all servicemen and women on full-time duty (including conscripts and long-term assignments from the Reserves). Reserve describes formations and units not fully manned or operational in peacetime, but which can be mobilized by recalling reservists in an emergency. IISS estimates of effective reservist strengths on the numbers available within five years of completing full-time service, unless there is good evidence that obligations are enforced for longer. Although paramilitary forces whose training, organization, equipment and control suggest they may be used to support or replace regular military forces, they are not included in the armed forces personnel. Home Guard units are counted as paramilitary. |
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| Development relevance: | Although
national defense is an important function of government and security from
external threats that contributes to economic development, high military
expenditures for defense or civil conflicts burden the economy and may impede
growth. Data on military expenditures are a rough indicator of the portion of
national resources used for military activities and of the burden on the
economy. Comparisons of military spending among countries should take into account the many factors that influence perceptions of vulnerability and risk, including historical and cultural traditions, the length of borders that need defending, the quality of relations with neighbors, and the role of the armed forces in the body politic. |
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